religion
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Late Night Thinking
I look and look for my notes on a lecture (years ago) by Pattiann Rogers; then realize that even if I find them, there is no certainty that my notes accurately reflect what she said. What I remember is: Science is the new religion. It is what we believe in, even when we do not… Continue reading
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FYE (For Your Enlightenment)
Via feministe, my own Religion: New Religion Creation ‘New Age Text’ From the most glorious regions of the spiritual plane, I have channeled the disembodied spirit of Emma Goldman, bringing to you the wisdom and stone of the lost city of Venice. To usher in the New Age of cats you must heed my words… Continue reading
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Haiku and the Double Helix| What I Am Thinking About
From New Perspectives Quarterly: The role of the scientific imagination in shaping the world to come is today uncertain as the great leaps forward . . . have revived old doubts and raised new fears about the human condition under the regime of reason. . . science is under attack both from religious extremists on… Continue reading
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Religion
From Whiskey River: "In the oldest religion, everything was alive, not supernaturally but naturally alive … For the whole life-effort of man was to get his life into contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain-life, cloud-life, thunder-life, air-life, earth-life, sun-life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so to derive energy, power, and… Continue reading
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The Pagan Agenda
This post is an experiment — and a risky one. As some of you know, I take sleeping pills (among others) as part of my medical treatment. Usually these knock me out for the entire night, but occasionally my mind races and I get up in the night and do odd things, some of which… Continue reading
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